Kara and Nate finally dive the Great Barrier Reef after canceling plans in 2016 for budget reasons. They helicopter to Heron Island and spend three dives spotting turtles, clownfish, and a manta ray, checking off a major bucket-list goal.
Hello.
This morning we are back at the Brisbane airport to continue what has turned into one of the longest travel days of our entire lives.
If you missed our last few videos, this whole journey started several days ago when we took a little road trip from Detroit to New York for 12.
Hours where we boarded a 16 hour flight to Hong Kong. And after a short layover, we flew two more hours to Da Nang, Vietnam, where we got in a car crash and spent the night in a hotel before continuing our journey with a flight to Singapore.
After a five hour layover in the Jewel, we boarded an overnight flight to Brisbane, where we are now.
And today, the journey continues with one more flight and a final helicopter ride to our destination.
All right, one hour to class. Sit back in the upright position. Tray tables are locked away now. And that your window shade if it's closed, to be pushed to the open position for takeoff, please. On behalf of Captain Jeremy Green and the entire Alliance Airlines crew, it's been our pleasure taking care of you this morning. We wish you a safe on the journey and hope to see you again soon. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and have a lovely afternoon. If you've been following our videos for a while, you probably already know this, but I have this phobia of small planes.
This one's smaller than the last one.
I can't even get. I'm so scared.
Okay. It's a big phobia.
Yes. Cool. Now I need someone to jump on these scales. So even though it's going to be both Bauer first time riding in a helicopter, only one of us is excited about it. You can do it. It's going to be great.
Shotgun.
This is crazy. If you.
It's sam. That's awesome.
We have officially completed the longest travel day of our entire lives.
Welcome to Heron island, where they don't have keys on any of the cabins.
Here we go again.
We're getting to have this incredible opportunity thanks to Patty and the Queensland Tourism Board, which is why we are on this casual afternoon helicopter ride to one of the Great Barrier Reef's 900 islands.
It's beautiful. Cannot believe we went from zero helicopter rides to two in one day. I'm not even scared. We're just on an island with nothing on it. They call it a K.
We had.
A rainy but gorgeous evening. And that night we tried to get as rested as possible so we could enjoy this next week to the fullest.
Good morning from Heron Island.
This morning we are diving the Great Barrier Reef, which would be a big deal for anyone, but for us today is very special.
So back in 2016, when we originally set off on this one year trip around the world, we sat down, we literally spun a globe, and we made an original bucket list. And on that list was scuba dive. The Great Barrier Reef. We actually had flights booked to Cairns in Northern Australia, so we could mark this off our list. But as the trip grew closer, we realized just how expensive it was to go diving in Australia. And we actually ended up having to cancel those flights because there was just no way that was going to fit into our backpacker budget. It was either go scuba diving and cut our trip short or continue traveling.
So when we canceled those flights that first year, we didn't know if we would ever be back in Australia, much less scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef. So not only are we back in Australia, still traveling three years later, but today we're going diving at the Great Barrier Reef.
This is a very special moment. And into the wetsuits we can get the thickest model. What's it?
At least it'll be warm.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest living structure. It's actually made up of over 2,900 individual reefs. And we dove three of them.
This was it. Our first glimpse of one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
And this little turtle came to welcome us.
The first thing we noticed was how much life there was. Colorful coral fish everywhere, Little nemos and their anemones.
It wasn't too different than any of the other dives we've done. It just seemed like everything was on steroids.
For example, say hello to this giant manta ray who came out of new nowhere.
We had never seen one before. He definitely got our hearts racing.
The coral seemed to go on forever. We were in awe of how beautiful it was.
We are so thankful that we got to mark this off of our bucket list. And this is only the beginning of our Australian adventures this week.
Oh, shoot.
Mushing.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And now we're going to get back on the helicopter.
Casual.
